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DOOMED DEMONS: Air Combat Stories for Boys #5.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1935.) dj. Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War - the fifth in this series, but the first by Adams (earlier titles were by Thomson Burtis) Illustrated by J. Clemens Gretter. Lists to #7 on the rear flap of the dj. Bound in bright lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, orange tinting to the top edge. 209 pp.
Condition: Good condition in a fair dust jacket (several tears to the dj along the folds, some chipping)
Book ID: 64780More details Price: $17.50 -
WAR WINGS: Air Combat Stories for Boys #7.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1937.). Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War - Illustrated by J. Clemens Gretter. Lists to itself at the back of the book, but to #20 in the Hardy Boys series. Bound in bright lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, purple tinting to the top edge. 216 pp. plus 4 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good overall condition (a hint of fading to the spine, prev owner's name)
Book ID: 67294More details Price: $12.50 -
WINGS OF THE NAVY: Air Combat Stories for Boys #6.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1936.). Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War - Illustrated by J. Clemens Gretter. Lists to #7 at the back of the book . Bound in bright lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, purple tinting to the top edge. 211 pp. plus 1 pp of publisher's ad..
Condition: Very good overall condition (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 68754More details Price: $12.50 -
THE ARMY BOYS ALONG PERSHING'S TRAIL.
Edition: Later printing.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, n.d. (ca 1930, c 1919) dj. Hardcover - Adventure novel about Pershing's pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916-1917. 252 pp plus 10 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in brown cloth with black lettering and border on front cover (usual rather severe toning to the pages, but a tight and sturdy copy), in a good dust jacket with overall edgewear, some crinkling and staining.)
Book ID: 68171More details Price: $18.00 -
WING FOR WING: Air Combat Stories #3.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932.). Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War. Illustrated by J. Clemens Greta. Glossy frontispiece and three internal plates. Bound in bright lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, orange tinting to the top edge. 205 pp.
Condition: Very good (some fading to the spine, prev owner's name, toning to the pages, but otherwise tight and clean.)
Book ID: 54115More details Price: $12.50 -
FOUR ACES: Air Combat Stories #2.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932.). Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War. Illustrated by J. Clemens Greta. Glossy frontispiece. Bound in lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, tinting to the top edge. 216 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall (darkening to the spine, usual toning to pages, some wear to covers but a tight copy), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85849More details Price: $14.50 -
WING FOR WING: Air Combat Stories #3.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932.) dj. Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War. Illustrated by J. Clemens Greta. Glossy frontispiece and three internal plates. Bound in bright lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, orange tinting to the top edge. 212 pp. plus 5 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages, minor edgewear to the dj, front cover illustration bright and attractive)
Book ID: 67247More details Price: $25.00 -
FLYING BLACK BIRDS: Air Combat Stories #4.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1933.) dj. Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War - features ace Stormy Lake and his squadron, the Black Birds, as they take on the German 'Red Devils.' Illustrated by J. Clemens Greta. Lists to itself on the back cover. Bound in bright lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, orange tinting to the top edge. 242 pp. (Lists to Ted Scott #18 on back cover, and 7 Air Combat books on rear flap)
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, some overall edgewear to the dj, tears at top of dj spine, tape on dj, etc.)
Book ID: 67277More details Price: $21.50 -
DAREDEVILS OF THE AIR: Air Combat Stories #1.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932.). Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War. Illustrated by J. Clemens Greta. Glossy frontispiece and three internal plates. Bound in bright lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, orange tinting to the top edge. 205 pp.
Condition: Very good (some fading to the spine, prev owner's name, but otherwise tight and clean.)
Book ID: 54114More details Price: $16.50 -
DAREDEVILS OF THE AIR: Air Combat Stories #1.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932.). Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War. Illustrated by J. Clemens Greta. Glossy frontispiece. Bound in bright lime green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, orange tinting to the top edge. 215 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good (some fading to the spine, prev owner's name, but otherwise tight and clean.)
Book ID: 85842More details Price: $14.50 -
FLYING BLACK BIRDS: Air Combat Stories #4.
Edition: 1940s printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1933.). Hardcover - Air adventure story set during the Great War - features ace Stormy Lake and his squadron, the Black Birds, as they take on the German 'Red Devils.' Illustrated by J. Clemens Greta. Bound in green cloth with dark blue lettering and plane, orange and while illustrated endpapers, tinting to the top edge. 242 pp. Produced under wartime conditions notice on title page.
Condition: Fair condition only - some rubbing and wear to edges of boards, rather severe toning to pages, corners bumped, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85843More details Price: $14.50 -
BOY SCOUT AVIATORS.
Edition: Later printing.
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., (c 1921) dj. Hardcover - "While on special duty during World War I, English Boy Scout Dick Mercer and his American friend , Harry Fleming, accidentally discover a heliograph hookup." Plain frontispiece, Unpaginated.
Condition: Very good in illustrated tan boards in a very good dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages, covers are bright and clean, minor edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 68145More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BOY ALLIES WITH HAIG IN FLANDERS or The Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge. (#10 of Boy Allies with the Army Series)
Edition: First or early edition.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1918). Hardcover - The tenth book in this series which was based on events in the first World War - or the Great War, as it was known then, The adventures of Chester Crawford and Hal Paine, two young Americans unable to leave Europe after the declaration of war, were based on adventures in the land theatre of the war. ... "They both came out of the war Colonels, through their hard work and sacrifices for the allied cause." Lists to this title at the beginning of the book. Glossy frontispiece. 221 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in illustrated tan boards - front hinge cracked before the title page, tidemarks on some pages.
Book ID: 67780More details Price: $12.50 -
BATTLING ON THE SOMME: The Big War Series #6.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fair condition only in red boards with white lettering and illustration- rubbing and wear to the boards, front hinge cracked, fraying at top of spine, prev owner's name dated Christmas 1919.
Book ID: 68585More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BATTLESHIP BOYS IN FOREIGN SERVICE or, Earning New Ratings in European Seas (Battleship boys series #3).
Edition: Reprint.
New York & Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., (c 1911.) dj. Hardcover - "Dan Davis and Sam Hickey are two young boys who have joined the Navy and are ambitious to work their way upwards. Dan is the leader, and wins promotion through his hard work, courage, honor, resourcefulness, and skill; as he rises, he carries his best friend, temperamental red-haired orphan-with-a-heart-of-gold Sam, along with him." Frontispiece. 212 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated tan covers in a very good dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages, but covers are bright and attractive, some rubbing and edgewear to the dj, peeled spot on front cover)
Book ID: 66406More details Price: $16.50 -
OVER THERE WITH THE ENGINEERS AT CAMBRAI, #5 in the series.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, (1920). Hardcover first edition - World War I series written by an author who was best known for his longer Boy Scouts series, written in the years leading up to World War I. This title was one of two published in 1920. Glossy frontispiece. 250 pp plus 6 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in illustrated boards with red and dark blue lettering - usual toning to the pages and endpapers, some rubbing to the lettering on the spine, but overall a clean and tight copy.
Book ID: 73013More details Price: $35.00 -
BOB COOK AND THE WINGED MESSENGERS: Flag and Country Series #4.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Barse and Hopkins, (1919). Hardcover first edition - Fourth book in this series which follows the adventures of Bob and his brother Harold in the US Army in France during the Great War. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three glossy internal plates by Charles L Wrenn. Lists to this title at the front of the book. 250 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Fair condition only in dark red illustrated covers (some spine slant, rear hinge cracked, fraying to the ends of the spine and some overall wear to the covers).
Book ID: 68133More details Price: $12.50 -
THE RED CROSS GIRLS IN BELGIUM (Red Cross Girls #3)
Edition: Early printing.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., (1916). Hardcover - The third book in this series which describes the adventures of four young American nurses as they work to help on the battlefields of the Great War - World War I. Frontispiece. Lists to #6 in this series at the front of the book. 269 pp.
Condition: Good+ in illustrated tan boards (gift inscription dated Dec 25, 1919, hinges starting, but overall tight and straight), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 86059More details Price: $20.00
